This 1944 family classic, nominated for five Academy Awards, launched the career of 12-year-old Elizabeth Taylor, who, as Velvet Brown, trains a horse she won in a raffle to race in the Grand National Steeplechase. Robert Kern, who edited the film’s thrilling horse race, won a well-deserved Oscar, as did Anne Revere, who played Velvet’s wise and caring mother. Equally good are Donald Crisp, as Velvet’s gruff father; Mickey Rooney, as the ex-jockey who helps Velvet train the horse; and Angela Lansbury, in just her second screen role, as Velvet’s beautiful older sister.